Swimmer, Max (1895 Leipzig - 1960 ibid.)

Lot 2011 limit € 7.500

Oil on canvas, "Zwei Akte am Strand", scratched signature lower left, monogrammed and dated (19)25 on the reverse, framed, approx. 57 x 65.5 cm, with frame approx. 65 x 73.5 cm, 1920-23 Studied philosophy and art history at the University of Leipzig, 1924 participant in Hans Purrmann's summer courses on Ischia, 1926 teacher at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts, 1933 dismissed from teaching post when the Nazis came to power and exhibitions were temporarily banned, 1946 director of the Leipzig School of Applied Arts, later appointed professor at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig, from 1951 teaching position at the Academy of Art in Dresden